GENEVA_–_ UN experts* today urged the Taliban to immediately halt all inhumane punishments in Afghanistan, including capital and corporal punishments, after four public executions were carried out in a single day last week. On 11 April, Afghanistan’s de facto Supreme Court announced that four men had been publicly executed as part of the Taliban’s _Qisas_ (retribution in kind –in reference to religious law), punishments in Badghis (2), Farah (1) and Nimroz (1) provinces. This brings the total number of reported public executions carried out since the Taliban seized control of…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 17 April 2025. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
